arabs

Napisana po angielsku monografia dotyczy stosunków słowiańsko-arabskich w najwcześniejszym okresie (IX-XI w.). Autor wykorzystuje mało zbadane źródła muzułmańskie, arabski i perskie. A monograph dealing with the trade relations between the Slav World and the Arabs. The reader is confronted with a mass of information on the middlemen of trade and commodities, which were exchanged.

I am a Veiled Man. Openly, I confess myself a vagabond and a brigand. Living here, in the heart of the Great Desert, six moons march from Algiers, and a thousand miles beyond the French outposts, theft is, with my nomadic tribe, their natural industry–a branch of education, in fact. We augment the meagreness of our herds by extorting ransoms from some of our neighbours, and completely despoiling others....